"I do not aim with my hand. He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.I do not shoot with my hand. He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart."

However, certain genres have put the "cool" back into guns. It's all about style, so expect a lot of flourishes that wouldn't work in real life, such as using Guns Akimbo.

The Gunslinger is this hero. They might be from The Western, Film Noir, Heroic Bloodshed or just plain scenery-destroying action flicks. A wandering gunslinger is often The Drifter, one specifically out to do good is also the Knight Errant. But overall for some reason, alongside the Cowboy, gunslingers have also become a cultural image of American people and American warrior culture abroad.[1]

The Gunslinger comes in a few styles:

The Trick Shot: Can shoot the wings off the back of a fly while hanging upside down and having to ricochet off a wall or two. Will occasionally interact with surroundings using same pistol.

Examples:

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Train Heartnet from Black Cat combines elements from several types. He also practices Gun Kata.

Genjyo Sanzo from Saiyuki is definitely The Trick Shot, being able to shoot a seed implanted next to Gojyo's heart by Chin Yiso without hitting the heart. In Reload, he also managed to hit Ukoku with a pistol 3 times the size of his weapon of choice...which he had never fired before, not even once...while suffering from multiple broken bones.

Said pistol had belonged to another Gunslinger in the series, Gatto Nenehawk, who was a The Vaporizer and used HUGE twin pistols.

Cowboy Bebop: Spike Spiegel borrows elements from The Woo and The Quick Draw. Mad Pierrot is The Vaporizer.

Noir; Kirika has a near-mystical gift for firearms, accurately shooting without looking or while performing leaps, rarely if ever missing; she is explicitly The Trick Shot. As one fan review put it, "Kirika isn't a ninja, she's a witch."

The title character of Madlax also fits under The Trick Shot, though she ventures into Gun Kata territory (and thus The Quick Draw) during the final episodes.

Samurai Gun, naturally, makes heavy use of this trope in its Steam Punk Historical Japan setting. The main character, Ichimatsu, and by extent the other Samurai Guns, are a combination of The Trick Shot and The Woo. Vaporizers show up in several episodes of the anime, including a minigun-toting Implacable Man who is only fighting because it's the only way to keep up the supply of medicine he needs to keep his sick mother alive. The main member of the Anti-Samurai Gun Unit (in the anime, at least) is actually a blend of several types; his primary weapon is a Steam Punk Uzi, but he has the same bullet-dodging training as a Samurai Gun and once proves accurate enough to shoot his opponent's bullet out of the air.

Vash from Trigun embodies Trick Shot, The Woo, and The Quick Draw, as he tries to avoid gunplay whenever he can, but when he gets into it, nothing can beat him. His traveling partner Nicolas Wolfwood completes the set as the embodiment of The Vaporizer (with some Woo thrown in), complete with a combination rocket launcher/machine gun/shotgun/pistol rack in the shape of a cross.

The Bernardelli girls: Meryl Stryfe, despite packing 50 derringers under her cape, is shown to be a Trick Shot artist, able to aim accurately on the run. Milly Thompson (who normally carries her huge Stungun under her cape) would be a Vaporizer if not for the fact her weapon is less-lethal.

Black Lagoon is an anime with two Gun Fu experts who use two pistols at close quarters as well as a huge number of gunmen (and women). One of those totes around a minigun...

More specifically, Balalaika is The Trick Shot, Roberta and Gretel are Vaporizers, and Revy is The Woo.

Eda, who we haven't seen fight much, appears to be a Quick Draw artist. For evidence, in the episode Calm Down, Two men, she's a faster draw than Revy, though not by much. That itself should be noteworthy, considering Revy's considerable skill.

And everyone leaves out poor Mr. Chang, who is a surgeon with the more precise types.

Rally Vincent from Gunsmith Cats is most definitely a Trick Shot. More bizarre tricks with a pistol than you can shake a stick at.

Rushuna Tendo from Grenadier also combines Trick Shot and The Woo into a uniquely anime gun-style, and at one point engages in a full-scale Gun Kata duel with a rival in the final episode.

Rushuna also covers The Quick Draw. While wielding one six-shooter, she has outshot a multi-barreled machine gun by not only shooting the bullets out of the air but hitting them so precisely they then blocked entire chains of other bullets.

All of the main characters from Gunslinger Girl. The girl are made to be so, as they're girls who have been converted into cyborgs and given paramilitary training to become assassins. Their handlers are from a variety of police and military organizations.

While her guns are very small, Natsuki from Mai-HiME is definitely a Vaporizer (since her CHILD can fire missiles and incredibly powerful beams of ice.) Her Mai-Otome counterpart gets a personal BFG.

Usopp in One Piece somehow manages to be a Trick Shot without ever actually using a firearm (at least not one using traditional chemical propulsion). Apparently, he inherits it from his father, who, while we never see being engaged in any particularly amazing examples, brags about being a Trick Shot all of the time.

A villanious example can be found in Hol Horse from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; a Trick Shot, thanks to the fact that his Stand, the Emperor, is a revolver that lets him control the trajectory of its bullets.

From part 5 we have Guido Mista whose stand Sex Pistols manifest as 6 imps who guide his bullets.

Another example from the JoJoVerse is RingoRoadagain, a semi-villainous example. He's a very solid Quick Draw. He has some Trick Shot in him, but that's a subtle subversion. He knows the most accurate distance for just about any revolver out there and he never fires one step outside of that range, which is why he never misses.

In the anime Trinity Blood, most of the heroes gunsling quite a bit, particuarly the Guns Akimbo, M13 Jericho wielding android Tres Iqus who has all three styles pretty much nailed (given that Gunslinger is actually his callsign this isn't at all suprising).

In several displays of skill, Riza Hawkeye from Fullmetal Alchemist combines ALL FOUR of the above types. Trick Shot is shown in her incredible long-distance sniping skill, while Vaporizer and The Woo are shown in her battles with the homunculi. Finally, Quick Draw is shown in Roy's fight with Scar.

Brandon Heat/Death Beyond the Grave from Gungrave: while during his human life Brandon preferred Trick Shot, The Woo, and Quick Draw, super-human strength of his undead state allowed him to carry big enough guns (the Cerberus handguns and the coffin) to add The Vaporizer to the list.

Daisuke Jigen from Lupin III is an expert shot who uses a custom .357 Magnum revolver to be the Trick Shot, The Woo, and the Quick Draw (0.3 seconds). Because of his strength in an array of guns, including rocket launchers and sniper rifles (which he shoots from the waist in The Castle of Cagliostro), he also qualifies as The Vaporizer. He actually dislikes More Dakka, saying that shooting more shots isn't better, especially when one will do the trick. He proves it in Lupin III Stolen Lupin, where he has a broken gun, and one bullet. This, against an enemy with automatic weapons in each hand.

Lupin, Fujiko, and Zenigata are also good with their guns, but Lupin's the clear number two. His use of misdirection and disguise make him a better trick shot than Jigen, although many movies have Lupin's gun wrecked before he can fire.

Primera Espada Coyote Starrk's released form is that of a traditional wild-west outlaw equipped with a pair of guns. For the most part, he has exhibited Vaporizer and The Woo, albeit in a x100 fashion.

Ururu beat Starrk as the first gunslinger by hundreds of chapters. She's a Vaporizer.

The Stern Ritter "N" Robert Accutrone manifests his cross as a relatively ordinary looking pistol. This being Bleach, everything is but ordinary and the guy actually shoots out Shunsui's eye. Something even Starrk couldn't do.

Soul Eater: Death the Kid is a combination. His usual style of a (literally) inhuman turn of speed, close-combat and Gun Fu falls under C, whereas Death Cannon and his other soul resonance attacks are B.

The Thompson Sisters themselves also fit the trope. While they're technically the weapons of Death the Kid, they've both shown the ability to fight using each other quite proficiently. Even more so now that Patty's become Liz's meister and Kid's possibly gone through a Face–Heel Turn.

General Cross Marian of D.Gray-Man uses Innocence in the form of a revolver. He's a combination of Vaporizer and The Woo, and definitely qualifies as one of the most badass characters in the series.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX has Austin O'Brien, who pulls this off by firing trading cards from his duel disk, which doubles as gun. Said trading cards explode upon impact for some unexplained reason.

Child Soldier Jonah from Jormungand is both The Trick Shot and The Quick Draw, which is quite unnerving to his mercenary teammates due to his young age. He also is not afraid to do a bit of Vaporizing when the situation requires it.

In Kino's Journey Kino is a formidable quick draw, often seen practicing it and later putting it to use with very effective results.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica has two Magical Girl Gunslingers, both Vaporizers. Mami Tomoe, prefers Gun Fu with a supply of single-shot muskets, but finishes with a BFG. And Homura Akemi, who combines her gunslinging composed of many military-grade weapons (including machine guns and RPGs) with lots of explosives and stopping time.

In Rebellion Mami and Homura end up having a gun fight. It was technically a draw.

Yoko from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has elements of Trick Shot and Vaporizer. She carries an over-sized, high-energy sniper rifle with her wherever she goes..

Akane from Kämpfer is normally a nice, quiet girl. Upon her transformation into a Kampfer however, her badass side appears along with a gun, and then starts firing at pretty much everything in sight she decides she doesn't like.

Maya from Burn Up! W/Excess. Being a Gun Nut, she's so crazy for her weapons that she gives them names. Vaporizer, given that most of her arsenal qualifies as "big guns" and she has an itchy trigger finger.

Her Burn Up! Scramble incarnation leans more towards a Trick Shot, showcasing more shooting skill and less desire to just shoot.

Medabots: KBT-type Medabots, including Metabee, are designed for shooting techniques. Metabee is both a Trick Shot, with his precision-firing revolver on his right arm; and a Vaporizer, with a quick-firing submachine gun on his left arm.

In Date A Live, Kurumi Tokisaki wields a musket and a flintlock pistol that resemble the minute and hour hands of a clock. They not only fire regular bullets but also serve as the catalyst for her Time Master powers.

The eponymous hitman himself, Reborn, is the most notable example, and is an undisputed master of the Trick Shot. In one instance, he appears to misfire at the ground, only to have the bullets emerge from the earth several seconds later to strike his target with perfect accuracy.

Xanxus, leader of the Varia, dual-wields Dying Will Guns that shoot out a beam of his highly destructive Flames of Wrath. Xanxus follows the path of the Vaporizer, as his named techniques largely involve him unloading a constant barrage on his opponent without any finesse whatsoever.

Fabio, also known as Vongola VII, was the inventor of the original Dying Will Gun. It's unknown what type of style he used, but he only used a single gun compared to Xanxus's two, and he also possessed a much weaker Dying Will Flame to use for his bullets.

Attack on Titan: The Military Police's Anti-Human Suppression Squad turn out to be this, using special maneuver gear and dual pistols. They especially dispatch three veteran Survey Corpsmen in an instant, establishing themselves as a serious threat.

The series East of West is filed with all types of gunslingers, which is to be expected from a comic book series that draws a heavy amount of inspiration from the Western genre. Just about every major character is expected to be some sort of master gunmen, but the two most notable ones are The Ranger and The Horseman of Death. Both of whom posses superhuman levels of marksmanship, making Trick Shot experts.

Grifter of the WildCATS is always depicted wielding two guns at once in just about every appearance he's made.

Judge Dredd is a solid Trick Shot thanks to his years of practice. And as a nod to his Space Western motif he also shows skill as a Quick Draw expert.

Agent Graves and The Minutemen from 100 Bullets. Special mention goes to Minuteman Willie Tymes, whose skills as the Trick shot earned him the nickname "My first shot is my last"

Kidd Twist from Joss Whedon's run of the Runaways is a villainous example of a Trick Shot. He wields a pair of Magical Revolvers that allow him to hit any target he lays his eyes on and will never miss. This includes being able to fire and have his bullet curve through obstacles and hit his target with a clean shot.

The Saint of Killers from Preacher is a Trick Shot (no matter how he shots, he will kill), Vaporizer (infinite bullets) and Quick Draw (apparently he doesn't even draw, he is instantly pointing at the poor guy who encounters him).

FBI Agent: So he drew on you and started shooting.

Sheriff Root: Ain't what I said. I said there was a blur and then shooting. I didn't see no draw.

Tulip O'Hare has also shown considerable skill as a Trick Shot in the few occasions we've have seen her wield a gun.

Described as equal parts scarecrow and zombie gunslinger, the Gunwitch is a silent undead golem with unerring marksmanship from Nocturnals. A Trick Shot with strong elements of The Woo and Quick Draw.

Tommy Monaghan the titular protagonist from Hitman is a combination of the Woo, Trick Shot and has shown shades of the Quick Draw.

The protagonists in Sin City all use guns. Hartigan is a Quick Draw since he usually draws and fires a single shot without having to move too much (he is pushing sixty with a bum-ticker, afterall). Dwight is The Woo. He usually has Guns Akimbo and does a lot of fancy footwork to avoid getting shot. Wallace is a Trick Shot, as evidenced by the fact that most of his shots are impossible to perform. At the end of his story, he shoots an entire warehouse filled with assassins before any of them manage to fire off a single round. Marv rarely uses a gun even though his is the most famous due to its name. From what we see, he's more of a quickdraw.

Being an amalgamation of every western gunslinger in fiction, Jonah Hex is naturally a professional in the Trick Shot and the Woo. And is the undisputed king of the Quick Draw. For example he is the only person in the DC Universe who has been able to outdraw Batman in a duel.

Lucky Luke is a Affectionate Parody of the classic western cowboy who takes the Trick Shot and the Quick Draw to illogical extremes. The phrase "faster than his own shadow", should give you an idea of the kind of gunplay antics he usually gets up to.

Wesley Gibson from Wanted is the undisputed god of all four styles. He demonstrates his Trick Shot skills by shooting the wings off a fly and always landing perfect headshots without even looking at his victim. Aswell as always being depicted firing away with a gun in each hand while performing all sorts of acrobatics. And he later displays his Vaporizer skills by laying waste to his enemies with a Gatling gun. Justified in that his marksmanship abilities are actually a genetic ability that he inherited from his father, who was known as the greatest supervillain who ever lived.

Plenty of characters from the The Walking Dead use guns but its Andrea's skills as the Trick Shoot that stand out. As she is always seen landing perfect headshots. Made even more impressive by the fact that she never even handled a gun before the zombie apocalypse

DC ComicsGolden Age character Vigilante is one if the earliest examples of this trope in comics. True to his roots as a classic gunslinger, he is naturally a professional Trick Shot and Quick Draw expert.

Cable and Bishop are both perfect examples of the Vaporizer. Not only that but they are routinely depicted firing guns that are even larger than they are! And considering the large stature of both men, that is saying something

Longshot and Domino both use their mutant power to subconsciously alter probability in their favor, so if there's a trillion-to-one chance of them landing a perfect shot, you can bet that they will make that shot.

In Maverick, the eponymous characters reveals himself to be a Quick Draw, but is not an actual gunfighter, preferring to bluff his way out of conflicts. This is in contrast to the original tv series, in which both the Maverick brothers are said to be incredibly slow on the draw. Bart once claimed that Bret could outdraw him any day of the week, and that Bret's nickname was "The Second Slowest Gun in the West".

Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean is a Trick Shot. Most of the fighting he does is melee, but when he takes up a gun it's always to do a single shot which needs to count. To wit, he fires a gun once per film in each of the first three films note Shooting Barbossa just as Will breaks the curse in the first, shooting an powder barrel in the second, shooting Davy jones' chest out of his hands in the third.

Sharon Stone's character Ellen in The Quick and the Dead. The entire movie centres around a quick draw competition, so the entire cast is filled with gunslinger. While most are Quick Draws, Cort and Ace are also Trick Shots.

In The Fastest Gun Alive,Glenn Ford plays a store clerk who gets tired of the overblown stories of the townspeople and shows them how fast he is, shooting two silver dollars in the air. Unfortunately, this draws the attention of an outlaw who will start killing people if Ford does not face him. The truth is that Ford is the son of a famous sheriff who taught him to shoot, but he never worked up the courage to face anyone. He changed his name and hid from his past. In the end Ford has to prove himself.

Roycephus Pulsipher of the R.I.P.D. is able to shoot a two headed foe with both hands while both are jumping through the air.

Calamity is a solid Trick Shot, pulling off kill shots while performing complex aerial maneuvers, being the team's dedicated sniper with the BFG Spitfire's Thunder, and being skilled in magical energy weapons.

Steelhooves is The Vaporizer taken Up to Eleven! His go-to weapons are a missile launcher and GRENADE MACHINEGUN! While his raw firepower is a great asset to his friends, it's also frequently an inconvenience as he leaves little to scavenge from.

Little Pip herself is something of a Woo. Her telekinesis allows her to wield multiple weapons at once (not always guns even), makes frequent use of S.A.T.S to invoke Bullet Time, and her weapon of choice is a scoped revolver.

In Poké Wars, Dawn is mostly a Trick Shot but has some Woo tendencies. Her supernatural accuracy places her in the Trick Shot category but her penchant for using dual pistols at close range places her in The Woo category.

In Child of the Storm the Winter Soldier falls into Trick Shot and Quick Draw with a touch of The Woo - he's capable of moving fast enough to turn and shoot a master assassin who has snuck up behind him and is holding a gun to his head before the other man can even shoot. The Trick Shot is also sort of inevitable since his grandson is Clint Barton.

Bad Future Crusaders: Apple Bloom is mostly a Quick Draw. Having grown up in a country more technologically advanced than Equestria (and fought in a civil war), she is very proficient with her hoofgun.

Literature

A Brother's Price: The Whistler family. All of them. It is mentioned at one point, that their children are given toy guns as toddlers, and real guns at eight years. Jerin's twelve year old sister shoots some bandits, which doesn't surprise him much when he hears about it.

Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger of Stephen King's magnum opus, The Dark Tower series. As it is fairly realistic in terms of gunplay, Roland only exhibits types Trick Shot and Quick Draw. He seldom has enough ammunition to be a Vaporizer type (and would probably consider it to be obscenely wasteful), and is only The Woo insofar as dual wielding (albeit briefly). Considering he's using single action revolvers, and can only dual wield by thumbing the hammers, doing it at all is quite impressive. Not to mention the only reason he stops Dual Wielding is because he loses two fingers off his right hand, and is rendered unable to hold a gun in that hand. Later, more gunslingers are added to Roland's ka-tet:

The Executioner. Mack Bolan has shown Trick Shot, Vaporizer, and even The Woo tendencies at time, although not to a superhuman extent, as have his homages like The Punisher.

Matthew Stark in Cloud of Sparrows is a somewhat more historically accurate version than usual. He's a dirty, coarse, violent man who nevertheless is good at heart. He's also able to out-reflex ninjas.

Lewis Wetzel from Zane Grey's Betty Zane is similar to the Last of the Mohicans example: a trick shot who can drive nails with bullets.

Holly Short and Vinyaya in Artemis Fowl. The latter requested for elecftric runs during a goblin rebellion despite not having to fight due to her desk job position but the same desk job position gives her a lot of power. She didn't miss.

Back in the early days of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Han Solo had several run-ins with a professional gunman named Gallandro, a mercenary renowned for being the fastest gun in the galaxy. Exploits attributed to him include hunting down a crime family, single handedly hijacking a star-liner and forcing the Assassin's Guild to default on a contract (by hunting down and killing half of their Elite Guard).

In Chasm City, it was said of the protagonist that he could take out specific brain functions with a shot, making him a Trick Shot. He laments to another character that he was never actually that good, but says he did come close.

Lt. Karrin Murphy of the Dresden Files is possibly this trope's Patron Saint. (Given the series, that could be literal — especially since she's almost certainly at the top of the very short list of candidates to become a new Knight of the Cross.) She wades into battlefields and underground lairs of the things that go bump in the dark, armed with only a gun, a badge, and five feet of Badass Adorable. Despite that, she's covered Harry's back with surprising success, doubly so for a muggle. She even gets her own chance at narrating in Aftermath.

Supernaturals (e.g. Thomas and Lara Raith. Harry complains that he doesn't even practice, yet nails a target from over a hundred feet away with a pistol. On a boat. In Lake Michigan. At night) play this trope awfully straight, hitting Trick Shot, The Woo, and Quick Draw. Justified - they do have supernatural powers and are capable of absurd feats like grazing skin layers off with a shot, ignoring recoil, and blurring speed. Fortunately, magic is faster that bullets.

The more forward-thinking (younger) among the Wardens and Knights of the Cross are known to carry heavy pistols and assault rifles, and use them proficiently.

To the point where Harry draws his revolver in Dead Beat and suggests shooting Cowl in the back. Ramirez, young Warden poster boy and owner of a Desert Eagle and multiple grenades says this is why the young wizards like the way he thinks.

Chess Pargeter of Gemma Files's Hexslinger Series hits Trick Shot and Quick Draw above, both killing a man with an over-the-shoulder shot without even looking and later shooting a would-be avenger twice (while sitting down) before the young challenger can even draw his pistol. (He does, however, have an advantage: unknown to him, he's a latent and partially-manifested "hex", a ridiculously powerful natural magician, and has been unconsciously channelling his powers into his gunplay.)

Agents of the Gun in The Half-Made World are a darker take on the trope; their superhuman gunslinging skills are provided as part of their Deal with the Devil with the demonic guns they carry, and they're compelled to carry out the will of their weapons until their inevitable violent death. On the plus side, they're basically the celebrities of the half-made West, and their exploits are remembered in the form of ballads and folk tales.

The Undertaker features Barnaby Gold; an undertaker turned gunslinger. Gold is primarily a quick draw, although he wears his left hand gun on a swivel on his belt, which allows him to turn and fire it from under his long black coat.

Live Action TV

Criminal Minds has Aaron Hotchner, Elle Greenaway, Emily Prentiss, and Jennifer "JJ" Jareau, all of whom are incidentally very good shots (Emily is probably the worst shot out of all of them, but that's not really saying much, since the only time she's ever really *missed* was about thirty seconds after getting a concussion in a car crash). Hotchner is notable for wearing not only a pistol on the belt, but in his boot while in the field. JJ once even killed an UnSub with a perfect headshot through a glass-paned FBI door. Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia has only held a gun once.

Zoe might be the character known for accuracy, but Jayne seems to be even better at it than she is when he's trying. Most notably, he's the only member of the crew to ever use a sniper rifle: in the first episode, where he shoots the hat off his target.

Red Dwarf: In the episode Gunmen Of The Apocalypse, the Dwarfers enter a "total immersion videogame" (basically, present-day VR cranked up to 11) version of Kryten's mindscape while he works on forming an antivirus program for the problems currently plaguing Starbug. In order to even the odds against whatever might await them, they hack in superpowered avatars from a Western-based TIV. The avatar Cat chooses is a Mexican gunslinger nicknamed The Riviera Kid, a character capable of shooting bullets out of the air mid-flight... and this. And yes, the brief dance and Spanish guitar riff at the utterance of his name is mandatory.

Farscape's Aeryn Sun. Especially impressive when compared to the male lead, who attempts to fire a gun only to have to throw it away as it explodes. Even after taking a few levels in badass, said male lead is nowhere near Aeryn's level when it comes to gunplay (Aeryn wouldn't trust him around her BFG until things got really desperate—to his credit, during that instance, he finally handled the thing competently).

Mossad liaison Ziva David from NCIS. Always lethally skilled with firearms (and everything else up to and including Kleenex and rubber bands), in an episode she exhibited the ability to dual wield a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver (at 90-degree angles to each other, no less) in a shootout to protect a Federal witness in their hideout hotel. Result: two dead Mooks, dead via simultanious Pretty Little Headshots, and Ziva, not so much as scratched, calmly reholstering as McGee and the terrified witness crawl out of the hotel bathroom.

Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue almost always resort to using their guns. In fact, they have more gunplay than the other teams. Justified due to the fact that it was a military operation, not some wizard, granting the rangers these powers.

Kid Curry from Alias Smith and Jones shot the gun from another gunfighter's holster before the man could draw; in the pilot, he tossed a bullet into the air and then hit it by firing another. Therefore, both Trick Shot and Quick Draw apply to him.

The Lone Ranger tended to shoot guns out of bandits' hands with either hand.

Wrangler Jane of F Troop, known to be the best shot at Fort Courage, which makes her closest to Trick Shot.

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace of Battlestar Galactica is a pilot who is described in canon as the best shot in the Fleet, in or out of a Viper cockpit. She gets to show off plenty of both skills.

The only thing sexier than Samantha Carter on Stargate SG-1? Samantha Carter with a P90. Vala's pretty cool too, though she prefers zats and pistols.

Doctor Who has River Song, who likes energy handguns, and once used them to threaten the Roman Army into helping her. Liz 10 also carries two Steampunk laser pistols.

The Doctor's full-time companions generally avoid guns, but some of them end up here anyway. Sarah-Jane demonstrates surprisingly good marksmanship for a reporter in Pyramids of Mars, Ace takes out a Dalek with a rocket launcher (she aims for the eyepiece), and both Rose and Martha get in on this in the revival.

In the final season Markham brings in Psycho for Hire Boon who is an excellent shot and just as fast as Raylan. Boon ends up challenging Raylan to a Western-style shootout and is a fraction of a second slower than Raylan. Boon ends up with a bullet in the heart and Raylan ends up knocked down after Boon's shot grazes his head.

On Mythbusters, have you ever noticed that when the build team is testing a gun myth, Kari Byron tends to bring the biggest weapon to the party? Kari said in a behind-the-scenes interview once that, being a good Californian, she was very anti-gun before working with Mythbusters, and after their second or third gun myths special, she found that she had turned into a gun nerd along the way. She now privately owns several firearms of her own and never seems to be far away when they're testing gun myths on the show.

Guinan of all beings in Star Trek: The Next Generation is one. She's a better Trick Shot than Worf on the phaser range, and when a Bar Brawl breaks out she's the first to pull out a gun almost as big as she is.

In "A Fistful of Datas", a holodeck malfunction gives a whole host of Western characters the strength, speed and skill of Data, making them all lightning Quick Draws.

Paladin on Have Gun – Will Travel is a Quick Draw. At one point, he goes toe to toe with a hired gunman with a 12-man tally; Paladin is so much faster that the hired gun draws first, yet dies without firing a shot.

Quite popular in the Necromunda setting. Among the House gangs, if you're not a Gunslinger, you're probably a Young Gun. You have rifle-wielding snipers for Trick Shot, heavies who carry one of a variety of BFGS, or a melee fighter who dual-wields pistols or a pistol and close combat weapon.

The notorius Cypher is well-known for wielding a pair of exquisitely crafted pistols (not similar; one is a bolt pistol, the other is plasma). Not to mention outdrawing and killing one of Abaddon's Terminator bodyguards so fast that even Abaddon nearly missed it. It's reflected on the tabletop too - he was the only character in the game that could fire both pistols twice in one turn. In his current rules, he has the highest Ballistic Skill in the game.

Sisters of Battle (Witch Hunters) give us the Seraphim, power armoured ladies with jetpacks who dual-wield automatic microgrenade launcher pistols. Or, alternately, dual wield flamer pistols, or, if you really want to splash out, microwave pistols that can turn a super-heavy tank into slag. Their gun fu is so awesome that everyone around them feels just a little bit braver for having them there.

Most armies have got some characters specializing in gunfire. Being the Trope Namer for More Dakka, many qualify as The Vaporizer:

Maugan Ra is a Vaporizer, carrying by himself a heavy machine gun that normal Eldar have to strap to an anti-gravity platform to lug around and is easily twice as effective as Shadowsun or Calgar when facing enemy infantry.

Commander Shadowsun also qualifies as a Vaporizer, assisted by powered armor, what with carrying two anti-tank weapons.

Dark Eldar tend towards the choppy end of the scale, but their Haemonculi can carry a device called a Hexrifle: a sniper rifle that turns the target into a statue.

The Imperial Guard have more than most due to their shooty nature, but special mention must go to Quick Draw Guardsman Marbo and his sniper pistol, and Vaporizer Gunnery Sergeant Harker, who carries a heavy bolter (a weapon normally carried by two men and fired from a tripod) around.

The Vindicare Assassin is a classic Trick Shot, as he is at the moment the only model on the table that can single out a specific model in an enemy unit with a gun and blast a hole in his head, and carries special ammunition that lets him do things like make tanks explode with a sniper rifle. In Dawn of War, an infiltrated Vindicare Assassin is possibly the best secondary commander unit in the game.

Don't forget the characters spiritual successors from Dark Heresy, the class of Scum hailing from Gunmetal City on Scintilla.

Anyone with Gun Schticks and/or a high enough Guns skill in Feng Shui is a Gunslinger in terms of this trope. Maverick Cops, Killers, and Ex-Special Forces guys are especially exemplary of the trope, but Spies, Gamblers, Magic Cops, Masked Avengers, Monster Hunters, Cyborgs and even Medics can qualify as well, along with any other archetype who spends XP on Gun Schticks and the Guns skill. What type your gunslinger character generally is depends on what Gun Schticks you give your character. Trick Shots prefer Eagle Eye, Shoot Weapon, Sabotage Shot and other schticks that allow them to perform crazy feats of accuracy. Vaporizers generally go for Carnival of Carnage and 10,000 Bullets to maximize the mook slaughter, along with Cover Fire, Bullet Storm, Lightning Reload, Who Wants Some, and a good automatic weapon capable of More Dakka. Woos can use pretty much any schtick out of the books, though Both Guns Blazing, Carnival of Carnage, Slow Mo Vengeance and others are primarily used by them. Quick Draws, as per the name, generally buy up lots of Fast Draw in order to act ahead of everyone else in a given sequence.

One of the more common character types in Deadlands. Some hucksters (called 'hexslingers') combine magic with gunplay to give them an extra edge.

The aptly named advantage "Gunslinger" in GURPS makes you into a type Trick Shot, The Woo, or Quick Draw.

There's a Gunslinger O.C.C., in the Rifts megaverse. Specifically, they can be any combination of Trick Shot, The Woo, or Quick Draw. In-game fluff describes them as assassins, hitmen, and mercenaries who specialize in close combat and dual-wielding pisols. They also have a psychic equivalent, the Psi-Slinger.

Shards of the Exalted Dream gives us the Solar Firearms tree, which has stuff for all four types (as does its Abyssal mirror). What's especially hilarious is that with sufficient strength, you can use the Guns Akimbo Charms, Sun-Dog Gunslinger Stance (Solar) and Murder of Crows Posture (Abyssal), while dual-wielding godcannons, which are guns the size of men.

Pathfinder has the Gunslinger class, which uses flintlock pistols and muskets (in the default setting; there are rules for more advanced firearms like revolvers and shotguns). Gunslinger characters have a resource called Grit which is used for pulling off crazy gunslinging stunts and is replenished with daring deeds, as the Gunslinger is not just a class about shooting things but a class about being really ballsy while you shoot things. There is also the Amateur Gunslinger feat, which gives access to a small Grit pool replenished as for a true Gunslinger, and a single basic Gunslinger stunt (most class variants that add in some gunslinger flavour tends to give it as a bonus feat).

Heroscape has several according to their bios, but only Deadeye Dan has actual effects that make him this. He's a Trick Shot who has two abilities: one which gives him a half chance to deal one damage (which is deadly to characters with one life and high defence) and the other which gives him a one tenth change of instant killinganyone.

The Greyhawk portion of Dungeons & Dragons gives us Murlynd, demigod of Magical Technology, and his White Paladins. Murlynd himself is styled after a Wild West sheriff, and he and his clerics and paladins are the only ones who can wield firearms in the setting.

In d20 Modern, there is an actual advanced class called Gunslinger. Unlike most fiction gunslingers, his abilities are mostly Boring, but Practical: Getting untyped bonuses to attack rolls (Trick Shot), increased benefits from cover. He can also shoot more often than other characters (Vaporizer), and is such a good shot that he reduces cover bonuses his enemies gain against him (Trick Shot).

The Iron Kingdoms gun mage is a gunslinger with magic; a sorcerer who uses his or her specially made rune-engraved firearm (typically pistol/s, but a few can use rifles) as a focus for spellcasting. They can imbue their bullets with spells, allowing them to pull off all sorts of trick shots and effects, from shooting through walls (Trick Shot) to creating a localised lightning storm where the shot hits (Vaporizer). They exist as Cygnaran and Mercenary models in the wargame and as a playable class in the RPG. The most famous signature character gun mage, Allister Caine, is also adept at teleportation magic, making him a capable Woo and Quick Draw as well.

The term "Swordsman School" is used rather loosely in 7th Sea and includes many schools based around weapons other than swords. Most relevant to this trope are the Montaigne Rois et Reines school that specializes in the use of a musket with a fixed bayonet, and the Vendel Rasmussen school, focused on pistols. Rasmussen even has a swordsman knack called "Trick Shot." These being 17th century firearms, both schools emphasize training far beyond the norm, allowing unusual aim, effective range, and reload speed. A master of Rasmussen can reload a pistol in a single action, while a character without the Reload Swordsman Knack would take several entire turns (with 2-5 actions per turn) to do the same.

The Ortegas of Malifaux are an entire Badass Family of gunslingers, led by Perdita, who is both a Trick Shot (able to ignore cover and armor) and Fast Draw (able to get in a shot before any other model can get theirs off). Her brother Santiago is a classic Vaporizer whose dual pistols can theoretically get off 16 shots per turn where two is average and four is amazing.

John Marston in Red Dead Redemption, a Trick Shot and a The Woo in that he can shoot a man's hat off or gun out of his hand and also enter bullet-time "Dead Eye" mode for those extra-tricky shots. He is also a master of the Quick Draw and often finds himself using a mounted machine gun, making him qualify for all four.

The Dual Pistols powerset features Trick Shot attacks and a couple of Vaporizer attacks such as firing bullets in the sky so they rain down on enemies.

Dungeon Fighter Online has the gunslinger class that can advance into three Vaporizers: The Launcher, that specializes in heavy weaponry; Mechanic, that builds robots that either explode or shoot things for him/her; Spitfire, that can use special rounds and explosives; and a Woo / Quick Draw, Ranger, that uses melee kicks and and quick shots.

The Metal Gear Solid series has an example of each. Revolver Ocelot is a Trick Shot, Vulcan Raven is a Vaporizer, and The Boss is a Woo. Snake himself is a Quick Draw, but it almost never comes up.

The Boss is The Woo and The Vaporizer. Look at The Patriot: a rifle with the barrel cut short. Size of a pistol, power of the rifle, and infinite ammo. Yes, the infinite ammo part is canon. And yes, she takes full advantage of it. She also takes away your gun, takes it apart, and hands you back the pieces.

Jr. from Xenosaga plays this trope straight, wielding Guns Akimbo in the Trick Shot style. His special attacks tend to involve ricocheting bullets off coins to the point in one of his moves, he throws more than a dozen coins, fires a single bullet, and the bullet bounces off every coin hitting every enemy.

Billy in the Spiritual Predecessor Xenogears is another Gunslinger, mostly Trick Shot style or maybe The Woo depending on playstyle. He is also one of the best healers in the game by virtue of being a priest or training to become one. Notably his last deathblow forgoes the main types he displays and delves straight into The Vaporizer where he unloads every gun he's carrying and even briefly jumps into a FPS-like view while firing his handguns before finishing with his shotgun.

Sundown from Live A Live is a Vaporizer (see his ultimate attack, Hurricane Shot, which fires more bullets than any four revolvers should ever be able to carry). Of course, he's ALSO a Trick Shot (Multi-Counter, which animates as him turning his back to the enemy and shooting through his poncho as a counter to almost any attack, and Pierce Shot, which hits all enemies in a line). In universe, Sundown is also a Quick Draw, as he's described as having "an arm as quick as lightning" (Neo Shot Storm, which can hit up to around six times, all before his opponents can react). Mad Dog, from the same game, is also a Trick Shot, as all of his attacks are essentially trick-shots.

Dante from Devil May Cry blends all four types together, with near-flawless accuracy and Offhand Backhand shots, a crazy rate of fire and a variety of explosive weapons, superhuman agility, and the ability (both in and out of cutscenes) to draw quickly yet still fire accurately. Of course, he has a Style explicitly named Gunslinger that enhances his firearm moveset. Nero aspires to reach the same level of competence, but isn't there yet.

In DMC 3, where the Style system is introduced, a gunslinger-style Dante has a different specialization for each gun he obtains:

-Ebony and Ivory are Dante's trademark handguns, they allow him to shoot two targets at once, as well, as a couple point-blank moves. The shotgun also allows Dante to move it like nunchuks while shooting everything around him. (The Woo)
-Spiral Sniper Rifle (trick shot) Dante can bounce bullets to hit several targets
-Kalina Ann(The Vaporizer) is a Bazooka that also features homing missiles

Created by the same person who created Devil May Cry, Bayonetta takes all 4 types to truly outlandish degrees. From regular hand guns to shot guns to ROCKET LAUNCHER TONFAS and so many other weapons, Bayonetta is currently one of the most insane examples of the gunslinger in video games so far.

Reaver from the second Fable game is Trick Shot and Quick Draw. Makes sense, considering that not only is he the Hero of Skill, but also that by the time you see his fighting skills in action, he's had hundreds of years to practice his shots.

Your player character itself is a Trick Shot, as maxed skill lets you hit from any distance, and kill with one shot.

The Time Control spell lets you move toward the Woo and Quick Draw types by dropping a pack of bandits before they have time to get their guns out.

Boktai, anyone? Both Django and his spiritual successor Aaron use Solar Guns, drawing from all three schools. In Aaron's case, the Witch is the Trick Shot, the Ninja is the Woo, and the Bomber, Dragoon, and Knight suit the Vaporizer fine.

Carth Onasi in Knights of the Old Republic and Atton Rand in the sequel both have elements of types Vaporizer and The Woo, stretching into Quick Draw during some cutscenes. Interestingly, Mira in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is the only female party member in the entire series who specializes in ranged weapons instead of melee weapons. Technically, she can be equipped with other weapons like most party members, including lightsabers if you turn her into a Jedi, but she's always most efficient with a blaster or two in hand. Some of their Improbable Aiming Skills can be explained; Mira and Atton are known to be Force Sensitive, adding enhanced intuition and reflexes. Carth's broadly hinted to be the same.

The Kid in Bastion is a combination Vaporizer and Quick Draw with dueling pistols (with a side of The Woo in that he dual wields), being capable of drawing, locking on, and emptying both guns into anything essentially as fast as you can click. One special attack moves into Trick Shot territory. He also gets bonus points for reloading solely by Gun Twirling.

Use of the Scrap Musket can put him squarely into Vaporizer, particularly with the special attack unloading around half a dozen shots in rapid succession. From a single-shot, muzzle-loading, shot-firing musket. There's also the Army Carbine and the Fang Repeater, the latter of which is A and B thanks to a high rate of fire and homing projectiles when appropriately upgraded.

The main character from Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel could be made into a Vaporizer in turn-based mode. Start with a high agility character who takes a starting trait which lowers the AP cost of shooting, which can later be coupled with a perk that further reduces the cost and another that halves reload time. Since the game's revolvers inexplicably shoot faster than all other pistols, using one you can fire six shots, reload, then get off three more before the other guy even gets to move. And when not using turn-based mode, your character's shooting animation is slightly quicker than normal, making him a Quick Draw. Nifty as enemies flinch and are stun-locked even from small damage, so even a huge mutant soldier can be cut down by one dude with a six-gun.

Gilder from Skies of Arcadia is a definite Woo. His first S-Move is even called 'Gunslinger'.

Max Payne is The Woo. Really, all that was missing from the game's bullet-time antics were the frickin' doves.

On the occasions the player gets to take control of her, Max Payne's Mona Sax shows why she's notorious as a cleaner. Her default weapon is a Desert Eagle (which can be dual-wielded) and her sniping rifle of choice is a Dragunov.

There's a whole class of these in Ragnarok Online, with any one of the types available depending on how you build one up and what weapons you use.

Call of Duty: World At War has two achievements in one level based around performing some Trick Shot marksmanship. At the beginning of "Vendetta," you can earn "The Professional" for only using five shots (without reloading) to clear out the first area (your targets are seven soldiers and an attack dog), while you earn "Gunslinger" for killing a German general with a pistol; said general is about a hundred yards away, has cover, and you only have a pistol if you found it early in the level (you will not find more ammo for it).

The nameless Gunslinger from the point-and-click PlayStation and PC game Silverload. He does not fit neatly into any of the types because he's controlled by YOU, plus the fact you have limited ammo for the shooting scenes. Good players can turn him into a Type A/D.

Rubi Malone of Wet is a Gunslinger who likes to do acrobatic Gun Fu combined with up-close and deadly katana work.

One of the three skill trees for Mordecai in Borderlands is called Gunslinger, and focuses on pistol and revolver skills. The highlights are getting shots that do 100% more damage after a kill and occasionally getting a free bullet.

Borderlands 2 has both Axton the Commando and Salvador the Gunzerker as Vaporizer gunslingers. Axton's "Gunpowder" skill tree focuses on mid-range combat with guns and meshes well with Torgue guns (and occasionally Tediore) while Salvador's "Gun Lust" and "Rampage" focuses on rapidly swapping between weapons or gunzerking most, if not all, of the time to tear apart the banditry of Pandora. Zer0 the Assassin, in sniper builds, is a Trick Shot who lives or dies by putting bullets into critical hit locations; with B0re, he can put shots through two enemies who are lined up, and the second will actually do more damage (he can also move into Vaporiser, with skills that let him increase firing speed in a short period after scoring a kill and occasionally fire two bullets at once). Gaige the Mechromancer is a weird Trick Shot/Vaporiser hybrid when specced into Anarchy; Anarchy builds faster if you can empty clips quickly, encouraging her to fan the hammer on a Jakobs pistol, while the Close Enough and The Nth Degree skills give her an incredible ability to ricochet misses into enemies from behind...which is kind of hilarious, given that if Anarchy didn't cause her accuracy to drop like a rock, she wouldn't need so much focus on ricochets to begin with!

Barret Wallace and Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII. Barret is a Vaporizer who uses his Arm Cannon to pepper enemies into oblivion with More Dakka, while Vincent is a Trick Shot and Quick Shot with his various firearms, with a focus on dealing out quick and decisive shots.

Irvine Kinneas who can be each different types on depending on the ammo type he uses and Laguna Loire who is a Bad Ass Normal who is a Vaporizer with his signature machine gun. For his appearance in Duodecim, Laguna was promoted to being capable of wielding more gun types than your average FPS protagonist. Aside from his signature machine gun, he also acquired a shotgun, a Sniper Rifle, a multi-rocket launcher, a bazooka, and several weapon fixtures from a technologically advanced airship which each fire various flavours of laser (one of which being called down from an orbiting satellite). All of this, PLUS the few types of grenades he also gets to use.

Lightning pulls off enough trick shots with her gunblade to qualify for Trick Shot. One of her normal attacks is shooting an enemy mid-backflip. Sazh isn't nearly as skilled at using guns as the other entries, but has some elements of Vaporizer and Quick Draw.

Commander Shepard of the Mass Effect series falls into every category if you play as the Soldier Class; Adrenaline Rush allows Shepard to hit nearly any point of an enemies body (Trick Shot), The Revenant has an insanely large ammo clip and will completely obliterate anything in its path (Vaporizer), Shepard, as previously stated has Adrenaline Rush which slows down time to a crawl allowing for completely domination in CQC (The Woo), which will also allow Shepard to kill enemies before they're even aware of his/her presence. If you're an Infiltrator, your main gun is the sniper rifle, letting you pull of some Alan Quatermain Trick Shots. In cutscenes, every Shepard is a Quick Draw, being able to pull off very impressive shots and doing so very quickly.

As far as supporting characters go, Garrus is a mix of Trick Shot and Quick Draw (during his Establishing Character Moment he headshots a hostage-holding thug without harming the hostage, and without looking), Legion is a serious Trick Shot, and in the third game Ashley is a massive Vaporizer thanks to the Marksman power, which significantly boosts her firing rate for a short time- combine it with a fast firing gun with a large clip like the Revenant or the N7 Typhoon and she'll put out an impressive wall of suppression fire.

Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura allows the player to act as a Vaporizer (with firearms with enough firerate) and/or Type D (with a long range rifle or handgun, especially if you play in turn-based mode).

Saika Magoichi from Sengoku Basara, being basically a Walking Armory, can fulfil most of the above roles, but is closest to Type B. She commonly carries around magnums, a shotgun, a tommy gun and a heat-seeking rocket launcher (detonation charges or air support optional) and uses a combination of them to blow her enemies to bits.

Her predecessor Nouhime, despite also being a Walking Armory was more of The Woo with a focus on Gun Kata-like moves.

Any female character in Valkyria Chronicles has a portrait shot in the Personnel tab showing them in dramatic poses with guns. Props go to Sniper Marina who after a successful snipe-shot loads her gun onto her shoulders and tosses off a bond-one liner.

Anne in Jurassic Park: Trespasser uses a variety of guns and, because there is no HUD, counts the number of rounds remaining in the weapon out loud.

Aya Brea, the heroine of the Parasite Eve series. She's also got some deadly magic to back her up; in the sequel one of her spells is to simply boost the power of her gun's bullets.

One of the targets hunted by Jango Fett Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a gunslinger named Longo Two-Guns. His gang occupies a town on Tatooine, resulting in a level not unlike an old western movie.

A playable subclass for Smuggler characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Mechanics-wise, a Type C as the class rains down ridiculous amounts of dakka on unsuspecting opponents, relying on fast AOE attacks. The Mercenary Bounty Hunter sub-class also takes the Vaporizer approach.

Grit in Advance Wars would appear to be this, being the indirect combat specialist (though even the direct combat units use guns...) of the series, and he even carries a gun in his portrait. His mannerisms seem to be based on a Western hero.

In Guild Wars 2, half the classes can use guns, but only the Warrior (with rifles) and the Thief (with pistols) really fit this trope, which usually overlaps with The Musketeer after weapon-switching gets unlocked.

Blood's Anti-Hero protagonist Caleb is described as a gunslinger in the manual. In the game itself, the closest thing to a revolver he uses is a flare gun.

WildStar has the Spellslingers, a magical variety who use mystic runes, the power of the universe, and their own sharpshooting to devastate their opponents.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf gives us Anonym, a Church MilitantLady of War who uses two plated Webley revolvers as her weapons. She has traits of both The Woo and the Trick Shot: on one hand she has quite the expertise in Gun Kata, on the other her fighting style relies a lot on her shooting her opponents before they can approach her since, if she runs out of ammo (after six attacks), she has to quickly recharge and that leaves her completely vulnerable for some seconds.

Erron Black from Mortal Kombat X, who is an Outworld gunslinger but fits the standard look with a face mask.

The Alchemist from Cardinal Quest 2 has the unlockable "Gunslinger" Perk. Gunslinger Alchemists sacrifice the ability to wield melee weapons and the ability to Craft items in exchange for starting with the Pistol skill. The Alchemist can still acquire the Pistol Skill in the skill tree, meaning the Alchemist can effectively dual wield pistols.

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger centres around former bounty hunter Silas Greaves recalling his days as one, though his claims are questionable. In gameplay, this primarily overlaps with "The Woo" through a Bullet Time mechanic (that can even be augmented with snap-aiming and trick reloads, among other things). Some boss battles also cover "The Quick Draw" through showdowns, where players must carefully focus and tactfully draw lest they be shot first.

Lucian is one part Trickshot, one part Woo, and one part Vaporizer, mainly in terms of his Ultimate Ability "The Culling" which fires a stream of bullets in one direction. With the right build, even the tankiest of champions will find themselves chunked to pieces.

It also helps that Lucian's title during the beta testing was "The Gun Templar".

Miss Fortune has the traits of Woo with her dual pistols, and traits of a Trickshot with her ability "Double Up", which ricochets off of one enemy and into another. However, she leans more towards the role of a Vaporizer with her abilities "Make It Rain" which drops a hail fire of bullets from above, slowing anyone who passes through it and her ultimate ability "Bullet Time" ( no not that Bullet Time )which fires wave after wave of bullet in a large gone area, requiring her to stand still during the duration of the ability.

Jinx is the very definition of "a Vaporizer", a psychopathic outlaw toting around a large Machine Gun she affectionately refers to as "Pow-Pow" and a rocket launcher she calls "Fishbones (whom she talks to apon occasion), she terrorizes the late game, tearing whole teams to shreds while switching between the two.

Overwatch's McCree is the most obvious choice, being both a Quick Draw and Vaporizer. How ever, Many characters apply.

Persona 4: Naoto wields a handgun, and Persona 4: Arena reveals her to be the Trick Shot, including ricochets and suingle-shot instant kill. By comparison, Adachi much prefers Pistol Whipping his opponents.

The original Persona and Persona 5 let everybody carry some sort of ranged secondary weapon, from pistols over shotguns to grenade launchers and Ray Guns. The definite example however is the Persona Satanael in 5, which kills Yaldabaoth with a single shot from its BFG.

Most Squishy Wizards in Nexus Clash become gunslingers to make up for their lack of defense with a good offense - an offense good enough that it had to be nerfed multiple times to become just one of the most lethal combat styles in the series.

Amical from morphE is so good with a gun that he can fire ten shots at five people with each bullet aimed perfectly at their respective hearts and foreheads. He is also a powerful enough of a mage to stop all ten bullets before they reached their mark.

Near everyone uses them in the first two issues of Sonic The GUN Project, including the titular hero Sonic (though he still does uses speed and spin-dashes). Shadow of course is an absolute beast in the duel-wielding department.

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This trope is the claim to fame for Pico of Newgrounds. Most often, he's a Vaporizer, preferring an AK-47 or a brace of Uzis to blast his opposition.

Or Eldritch, looks like a young woman, shoots like a psychotic heavy-weapons range instructor; Generator might qualify too depending on your definition of 'girl', Loophole is quite proficient with her .45 handgun, and Bladedancer is secretly training with guns to surprise her opponents, while Bunker specializes in explosive ordinance (Girl With Bazooka)... considering the setting and the fact that training is readily available it's not uncommon to come across a girl that packs a gun or at least is proficient with one.

Freelancer Agent Carolina is The Woo, combining her Dance Battler moves with light one-handed guns (such as a Magnum or a pair of Plasma Rifles).

Agent Texas is the same.

Agent South Dakota as well.

Agent Wyoming is a Trick Shot.

Agent North Dakota is the epitome of Trick Shot, at one point sshooting a swarm of missiles out of the air with a pair of Sniper Rifles, firing ridiculously quickly.

Agent Washington is a Trick Shot. He's not only extremely proficient with his Battle Rifle, but once destroyed a Hornet by shooting the controls while it was trying to dodge, while he was in free fall.

Simon Heller, a character in The Unwaking setting from The Wanderer's Library, is a Gun Marshal. What that entails is not exactly explained, but seems to involve an empathic connection with all guns.

In RWBY, most characters carry outrageous transforming weapons which serve as both firearms and melee weapons, but some really put an emphasis on the gunslinging side of things.

Emerald has a pair of large revolvers which she is an unnervingly good shot with, and she has a tendency to twirl them like she's in a western.

Coco is the resident Vaporizer, toting a huge gatling gun which can mow down swarms of weak enemies or steadily wear down a tougher one.

Ironwood carries a powerful pistol which he uses to make incredible trick shots, such as firing over his shoulder and nailing an opponent behind him without even looking. He's also highly proficient in Gun Fu and capable of lethal Pistol-Whipping.

Annie Oakley. Legend has it that she could pin an ace of hearts card to a tree, walk twenty yards away, then shoot the heart right out of the center.

Wild Bill Hickock served as a marshal during the height of the Wild West. He was so fast with his guns that he was able to fend off an ambush in what is really the only "Showdown at High Noon" type of gun battle on historical record.

The White Tights of urban legend, an Amazon Brigade of blonde, white-clad sniper women with a hate-on for the Russians.

D. A. "Jelly" Bryce. He began his career with the Oklahoma City Police Department, for which he "interviewed" by fast-drawing and shooting a target group that could be covered with a silver dollar. J. Edgar Hoover himself waived the college degree requirement in order to hire the guy, who was known to practice his fast-draw in front of a mirror for eight hours straight at a time. As a "special negotiator", brought in to deal with hostage situations and stand-offs—with terminal consequences for the suspects who chose to try to out-shoot him—he became so well-known and so feared that law enforcement only had to call him to the scene and suspects would surrender without a fight. In 1945, Life magazine ran an article on Bryce, featuring a series of stroboscopic photos that documented his speed demonstration of holding a coin at his shoulder height, dropping it, drawing his gun, and shooting the coin before it passed the level of his waist. That trick shot only took two-fifths of a second.

Jerry Miculek is a combination of the Trick Shot (capable of putting shots onto a target two hundred yards away from a pistol in both conventional and upside-down grips) and the Vaporizer (holds numerous speed-shooting records, including six shots on-target from a revolver in under one second).

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